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Seminar Goals
- Increase awareness of the structure, capabilities and limitations of social service and health care delivery in New Jersey.
- Experience what it is like to seek the assistance of social service agencies.
- Offer opportunities to think about ways to improve social service delivery.
- Improve understanding of the social and economic realities facing New Jersey cities, as represented for human services by Paterson and for health care by New Brunswick.
- Increase understanding of important health care issues in New Jersey, including low quality of care, fragmentation of planning and regulation, and restricted access for various groups.
- Identify opportunities to improve overall health care in New Jersey.
NOTE: If you are driving directly to the Paterson Museum on Wednesday, March 10, there is limited parking available at the Museum. Overflow parking is available at the Visitor Center across from the Great Falls at the City of Paterson's Great Falls Visitor Center, 65 McBride Avenue Extension in Paterson. The Paterson Museum is a short walk from there. The Visitor Center's telephone number, if needed, is 973.279.9587.
Preliminary Agenda - Wednesday, March 10
| 8:30 AM |
Bus leaves New Brunswick (for those staying overnight March 10th or for those living in Central/South Jersey who prefer to take the LNJ transportation to Paterson)
Meet in the lobby at The Hyatt Hotel, 2 Albany Street, New Brunswick
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| 10:00 AM |
Seminar Overview
Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street, Paterson
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| 10:45 AM |
Special Address
Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street, Paterson
Janet Rosenzweig, LNJ '94 (invited)
Commissioner, NJ Department of Children and Family Services
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| 11:30 AM |
Board bus for Paterson site visits
NOTE: LNJ bus will take you to your first appointment only.
Janet Rosenzweig, LNJ '94 (invited)
Commissioner, NJ Department of Children and Family Services
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| 11:00 AM |
Five teams begin tours of Paterson social service agencies
Lunch arrangements on team itinerary
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| 3:15 PM |
"Living on Food Stamps" activity with Team
Shop and walk up Market Street to the Paterson Museum
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| 4:30 PM |
Teams reconvene
Paterson Museum, 2 Market Street (973) 321-1260
Evaluation of Team Purchases for Food Stamp Activity
Judge: Bea O'Rourke, LNJ '05
O'Rourke Group
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| 5:30 PM |
Time for Paterson Museum and Great Falls
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| 6:00 PM |
Dinner with guests from Paterson Youth Council
Frank Lautenberg Transportation Opportunity Center, NJCDC
32 Spruce Street, Paterson (across street from Paterson Museum)
Welcome: Bob Guarasci
President, NJCDC
Leonard Zax
President, Hamilton Partnership for Paterson
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| 8:00 PM |
Bus returns to the Hyatt in New Brunswick
The Hyatt, 2 Albany St., New Brunswick
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